I'm working on an app that has one page that's quite complicated (but in my opinion really easy to use once you've learned how it works). Basically you're outli

I'm working on an app that has one page that's quite complicated (but in my opinion really easy to use once you've learned how it works). Basically you're outlining the structure of a document, so you have to create a table of contents for the document in a left hand pane (33% width) and then mark corresponding regions on the right hand pane using your mouse, and there are buttons on the left pane to store/load a region corresponding to an entry in your table of contents. As two separate pages the workflow is a little awkward because logically the two steps are related, but when we put the two pages together we found that there was no place to put instructions. I ended up putting in one of those guided tour scripts where you click around to go through it. The thing is once you've used it once it's really obvious what to do and the UI is pretty efficient but you need some way of explaining the interface the first time, and I think something like this is better than wasting a lot of space on instructions. (I'd link to the app to make it clearer, but it's still a work in progress and at the moment I need to control the number of people using it so we can figure out how it scales before launching it to the world - plus it's really an educational application for instructors so most people wouldn't be interested).